Best Picture Brainrot - A Countdown to the 100th Oscars

We are  85 weeks away from the 100th Academy Awards; follow Adam, Drew, and Sarah as they travel to unoccupied France to escape the Nazi takeover of mainland Europe.  Of course to get out they need to go through... Casablanca ,  1943's iconic Best Picture Winner. Back to back World War II movies isn't a surprise - though  Casablanca bucks a bit of the optimistic patriotism of  Mrs. Miniver for the...

We are  86 weeks away from the 100th Academy Awards; follow Adam, Drew, and Sarah as they hang out with a particular British housewife by the name of  Mrs. Miniver ,  the winner of 1942's Best Picture Oscar. Step aside World War I - your time is up.  There's a new World War in town and this one has villains with killer fashion sense.  We appreciate your contributions but frankly my dear (wrong ref...

We are  87 weeks away from the 100th Academy Awards; follow Adam, Drew, and Sarah as the answer the question all of us have been thinking:  How Green Was My Valley ?  Of course that is the name of 1941's Best Picture winner. Wale, Wale, Wale, what do we have here?  A valley huh?  How green is it?  Oh, not that green?  Covered with coal soot actually?  Oh Wale...  That's it.  That's the movie.  It'...

We are  88 weeks away from the 100th Academy Awards; follow Adam, Drew, and Sarah as they get a little Hitchcockian and meet the winner of 1940's Best Picture - Rebecca. We find ourselves in the hangover year from Gone With the Wind with Rebecca , another dark love story - but one where we trade American aesthetic for European sensibility, large scale for intimacy, and sweeping color for black and...

We are  89 weeks away from the 100th Academy Awards; follow Adam, Drew, and Sarah as they, frankly, give a damn about the 12th Best Picture winner - 1939's Gone With the Wind . 1939 was a banner year for a lot of reasons.  The New York Yankees swept the Cincinnati Reds in the World Series, Hitler invaded Poland, and a scrappy little cinematic novel adaptation named  Gone With the Wind released to...

We are  90 weeks away from the 100th Academy Awards; follow Adam, Drew, and Sarah as they consume more Capraganda with the 11th Best Picture winner - 1938's Y ou Can't Take it With You. Like we said, there are 90 weeks until Oscars 100.  Or should we say... 90 "twee"ks for the most millennial-core Best Picture which is somehow also from the 1930s.  This movie stars Jimmy Stewart as the son of a bu...

Can you believe this is our 10th epsiode?  We are 91 weeks away from the 100th Academy Awards; follow Adam, Drew, and Sarah as "They Accuse!" (that will make sense later) one of the most French Best Picture winners - 1937's  The Life of Emile Zola. We're back in the biopic trenches (regardless of how you pronounce it) with the story of Emile Zola, a French journalist and author whose career spanne...

We are 92 weeks away from the 100th Academy Awards; follow Adam, Drew, and Sarah as they get Zieggy with it in our next Best Picture winner discussion - 1936's  The Great Ziegfeld. The Great Ziegfeld tells the story of the... great Ziegfeld.  He's okay.  One of the biggest drivers of the growth of Broadway, and inspiration for the events in  The Broadway Melody -  Florenz Ziegfeld went from relati...

We are 93 weeks away from the 100th Academy Awards; follow Adam, Drew, and Sarah as they take to the high seas with the eighth Best Picture winner - 1935's  Mutiny on the Bounty. Ahoy!  Witness Frank Lloyd's redemption from historical stinker  Cavalcade as he makes a certified British banger in  Mutiny on the Bounty .  This tells the story of the HMS Bounty, a ship bound to Tahiti and captained by...

We are 94 weeks away from the 100th Academy Awards; follow Adam, Drew, and Sarah as they go from strangers to lovers of the seventh Best Picture winner - 1934's It Happened One Night. Calling all Capra-corns, we're watching the first rom-com to win Best Picture -  It Happened One Night .  Part romance, part screwball comedy and part road trip movie, this movie follows spoiled heiress Ellie Andrews...

We are 95 weeks away from the 100th Academy Awards; follow Adam, Drew, and Sarah as they trudge through British history with the sixth Best Picture winner - 1933's Cavalcade. Oi!  We talkin' about  Cavalcade this week, innit?  This film traces the history of Britain from the turn of the 20th Century up until the year of its release - 1933.  It's one of those films where simultaneously a lot happen...

We are 96 weeks away from the 100th Academy Awards; follow Adam, Drew, and Sarah as they check in to cosmopolitan Berlin with the fifth Best Picture winner - 1932's Grand Hotel . What if Mike White was a time traveler who went back in time to test a pilot for The White Lotus in the 1930s?  This is exactly what  Grand Hotel feels like - a cast of colorful characters interacting within the walls of...

We are 97 weeks away from the 100th Academy Awards; follow Adam, Drew, and Sarah as they journey to the early days of Oklahoma with the fourth Best Picture winner - 1931's Cimarron . Are we in Oklahoma, 1950's New York City or Dune?  These are questions we ask this week as we meet a colorful cast of OG gentrifiers settling the American West.  Hold on to your wife and kids because some of these cha...

We are 98 weeks away from the 100th Academy Awards; follow Adam, Drew, and Sarah as they return to war in the third Best Picture winner - 1930's  All Quiet on the Western Front . It feels like only two weeks ago we were in World War I...  But this time we trade the air for the trenches and American soldiers for German ones (well, American ones playing German ones with zero attempts at an accent). ...

We are 99 weeks away from the 100th Academy Awards; follow Adam, Drew, and Sarah as they discuss the musical second Best Picture winner - 1929's The Broadway Melody ! This episode is sponsored by Diegesis!  Follow along as we recount the story of sisters Hank and Queenie as they traverse the seedy world of Broadway in their attempt to hit it big; testing their sisterly bonds as well as the patienc...

(00:00:00) Introduction and our Four Favorites (00:06:20) Historical Content + Cast & Crew (00:25:15) Discussion of Wings (00:48:08) What Else Was Nominated (00:52:38) The Brainrot (01:00:01) Our Ratings We are 100 weeks away from the 100th Academy Awards; follow Adam, Drew, and Sarah as they kick off the countdown with the first ever Best Picture winner - 1927's Wings ! Follow along as we fly hig...